All Access High School Baseball Practice with Mike Woods

See how Woods' organizes his practices so that every position (pitcher, catcher, infielder and outfielder) gets position-specific work

Discover a unique throwing program that works position-specific throws and throwing on the move into each practice

Get a better jump on the ball and steal more bases using Wood's Vault Base Running Drill

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with Mike Woods, Hamilton (AZ) HS Head Coach;3x Arizona High School State Champs (2003, 2004, 2008) and 3x State runner up (2011, 2009, 2005); over 300 career victories; 38 players have gone on to play in college (14 in D1) and 12 have played professionally

Join three-time state championship Coach Mike Woods as he prepares his high school baseball team for the upcoming season. This video will enhance any coach's practice with a variety of drills delivered in an up-tempo, time-saving practice. Each practice was filmed live, as it happened. Woods and his staff provide helpful commentary on their approach to practice and coach their players through the drills.

Practice #1:Coach Woods takes you through his six phase practice session. Each phase includes drills for footwork, ball handling, ball transfer, 1st and 3rd defense and batting practice. You'll see a unique twist on dynamic stretching as well as a detailed throwing program that gets every player building his arm in a way that is relevant to his position.

Woods reveals his catcher drills that use a pitching machine, explains why he incorporates the pre-game infield/outfield routine into every practice, then throws live batting practice; giving you total access to all of the tips, adjustments and attention to fundamentals he conveys to his players.

Practice #2:In the second practice, Coach Woods runs his team through the "Vault" base running drill which will allow your team to get a better jump on the ball and steal more bases. Woods spends a good amount of time giving highly detailed coaching to catchers, and has his assistants doing cage work and tee drills with highly detailed, excellent coaching.

Also included is a live batting practice with every round scripted to resemble a live game situation; outfield work with a focus on one-hops, ground balls, fly balls, and playing balls off the wall; double plays with a focus on the first out; and situation work.

This video is a valuable for any coach at any level who wants to develop or improve their high energy practices. Coach Woods shows how every coach can maximize their practice time with their players and get the most out of their players everyday!

250 minutes (2 DVDs). 2012.

All Access videos are designed to allow viewers from all over the world to see how successful coaches run their practices in a "live" practice setting. All Access videos allow viewers to see the practices un-edited and in real-time. You will see how top coaches run their drills, interact with their team and staff, how they motivate their team, the cue words they use, the atmosphere of the practice and how practices are structured from day to day. Many coaches visit successful colleges and high schools to watch practice. But if you live out of state or out of the country, visiting another coach's practice can be costly. That's why we created the All Access Practice Series of videos -- to bring the practices to you!

All Access High School Baseball Practice with Mike Woodson August 20, 2013

Currently 4/5 Stars.

4/5 Stars4
by Anonymous

I watched this DVD in spite of being spooked by the 1st reviewer ... and have to say, most of his disagreement came with camera-work criticisms. 'All Access' means that Championship turned on the camera and followed a team around, live, for a couple of practices. While I have preferred the college 'All Accesses', this is absolutely terrific stuff. Yes, there are a few times where I said to myself 'get on with it', but, that's coaching isn't it. And if you stay with it, you see the breakthrough on the team and that is what coaching is all about. My advice is if you think you know everything already, skip this video and all other coaching DVDs, coaching clinics and even other coaches - you will not be changed if you approach everything with an arms folded ears shut mentality.
If you think you can learn from every situation and from the experiences others have shared, then I think you will find this DVD informative and worthwhile.

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All Access High School Baseball Practice with Mike Woodson August 20, 2013

Currently 4/5 Stars.

4/5 Stars4
by Anonymous

I found this to be a really good view of a top high school coaches' practice. Really liked seeing the insight of the decisions he makes and why. Picked up some great drills ... would have liked to see one more practice ...

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All Access High School Baseball Practice with Mike Woodson September 10, 2012

Currently 1/5 Stars.

1/5 Stars1
by ThomasCahill473

The 2 discs together, eat up considerable time so I'll attempt to provide a comprehensive analysis without turning this
review into a miniature War & Peace. Overall, it looks like the discs cover 2 different in season practice sessions so I'll
go disc by disc.
DISC # 1 opens with the players engaging in dynamic stretching. Coach Woods explains that this type of stretching is
superior to static stretching but that is as far as he takes it. Dynamic stretching is considered to be superior but why it
is is never explained. Maybe there are coaches who have never heard of dynamic stretching and are unaware of how the
stretches are performed. Dynamic stretching is an excellent idea which would have been more effective if coach Woods
had taken the viewer through the stretches that the players are performing, explaining which body parts are targeted and
how to perform them.
After the stretching the team engages in some base running drills, focusing on getting a jump on the pitcher. We then
go to team throwing with the focus being on the catchers prep work. In 9 min. the catchers are able to take numerous
reps while covering glove / throwing hand exchange, throwing footwork & distance throwing with proper footwork.
The catching segments are the strongest part of the 2 discs. The drills, blocking, receiving, receiving with throwing footwork, are performed crisply with coach Woods providing an informative running commentary & correcting mistakes.
Next we move to to the infielders. This, too, is a well done segment as the players go through several drills focusing
on a quick glove to throwing hand exchange & staying down on short hops. The 1 - hop gauntlet drill deserves special
mention. The players then take their positions for fungos and this drill is crisp, providing multiple reps on various type of grounders.
From here on, the presentation goes downhill. The camera is too far from the action for the 1st & 3rd defensive drill
plus the angle cuts off 1/2 of the field so anything involving the 1st & 2nd basemen can't be seen unless the player runs
into the shot. No explanation of which offensive play is being used and what the defense will do to try to counteract it.
We can barely hear , because the camera is too far away, coach Woods as he calls out various situations & plays. This
problem reoccurs in Disc # 2. It really isn't that important since the names of the plays & defenses are meaningless
because they haven't been explained. We are left to figure it out by ourselves.
The next segment is infield - outfield which, because of the camera setup, doesn't come off well.
The live BP segment, which concluded disc # 1, had me scratching my head. It lasted 18 minutes & consisted of coach Woods throwing BP to the entire squad. Was it necessary to show the entire team doing the same thing for almost 20 minutes ? I understand that this is an in season practice but, for the purposes of this taping, if coach Woods had taken
up a position along the 1st base line and explained how the players rotate through & shown the location of the other
hitting stations, we would have a better understanding of what the players were doing before & after they hit on the
main field. Let one of the assist. coaches throw BP & walk around & show what everyone else is doing. Keep the 18 minutes in mind because these extended time segments or "time fillers" come up again in Disc # 2.
Disc # 2 is basically a rerun of Disc #1 except we now see the outfielders in action & the team defensive period deals
with bunt defense. The outfield portion begins well enough with the players working on the proper way to field various
base hits & fly balls and playing balls that hit the fence but, for the most part, don't bounce away.
The last outfield segment has to be seen to believed. Ostensibly, the players are taking balls off the bat in BP but what
we see, for 15 minutes, is the outfield coach standing in CF while the players periodically run through the shot fielding batted balls. The coach, when he isn't talking to himself, always appears to be interacting with the same 2 - 3
players because they are nearest to him. Taking balls off the bat during BP is self explanatory. We don't need to watch
15 minutes of nothing.
Team bunt defense suffers from the same poor camera setup as the 1st & 3rd segment. There is a lead up portion that
has an assist. coach rolling bunts to to P, 3B, 1B & C who react to the rolled ball. This part also suffers from a lack of
introduction / explanation from coach Woods and, once again, we have to decipher what is happening on the screen as
various defensive & offensive codes are called out. We are told that the back pick at 1B with men on 1st & 2nd is a key
part of the defensive scheme but we never see it executed since the camera cuts out the right side of the infield.
Next stop is the batting cage where the focus is on going to the opposite field. It's an interesting piece using 1 righty
& 1 lefty batter but instead of leaving it there, 2 more righty batters are brought in to execute the same skill. I'm getting the
feeling that the well is running dry and the producers are trying to fill time.
That feeling remains as the next sequence shows players working a T - drill attempting to hit line drives into a net
as the " T " is moved from high to low. This time 5 players are used to do the same thing.
The final segment shows players during the live BP session. No audio,explanation or introduction. Just video of the kids
taking cuts & putting down bunts. This goes on for 40 minutes. That's correct. 40 minutes.
Lets do the arithmetic. Disc # 1 - live BP which is basically 18 min. of nothing. Disc # 2 - 15 min. of outfield nothing
and the 40 min. of watching 16 - 18 yr. olds take BP. Add it all up & it comes to 73 minutes of dead time. Interestingly,
considering all this wasted time the pitching staff, except for a brief period of PFP work, never appear in the presentation. We have no idea about their practice routine except for coach Woods making reference to some one
throwing a bullpen. The most important part of the team is invisible for these two practices.
The real shame is why the producers tried to make a lot out of a little. 73 minutes is the length
of a disc. If they had junked the filler they would have been left with a reasonably good presentation that could have been 1 disc long, combined with a significant upgrade in camera work
I cannot give this product anything higher than a 1 because of poor production. The content, mostly due to the catching
& the infield segments would rate high but the bad stuff brings the whole thing down. Can't go higher than 2 1/2 - 3.
for content.

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